POW 09-09-2010
POW – Picture(s) of the Week
9/4/2010: Our Scottie pup in the backyard
Our attentive “Zoe-Bird”, aka “Zoe-Cat”, Scottie Terrier…she is the Princess of the Estate and second only to the Queen (Mackie)
Category: Photography
FBIR: The Magnificent Universe
FBIR (Facebook Inspiration Received – as odd as that seems getting inspiration from such an unlikely source) comes from OFSIL SueB who found this: Continue reading “FBIR: The Magnificent Universe”
Not your backyard fireworks
Lake Dallas, Texas Fireworks Show – a 4th of July celebration on July 3rd.
Waiting for that just-right picture
These guys are way good…I need to meet them sometime soon!
Laurence Parent, photographer
Spring time
A Dandy Thanks
Holy Henbit, I had no idea today was Weed Appreciation Day!
Thanks to high school chum Ivan for enlightening me through his Facebook status. Odd fate thing has my knees “soiled” as I’ve been photographing Spring in Texas the past week or so, and today I was hunched over and 4″ from a dandelion (prior to knowing it was such a celebratory garden holiday). Continue reading “A Dandy Thanks”
Toulon
A rediscovered photo in my 2009-365 collection captures the Toulon grain elevator in Kansas over Thanksgiving weekend last year. A common sight in Kansas are grain elevators, this Toulon elevator is about two miles from Dad’s house. The layered colors in the stockpile were a definite bonus. An ever so faint half moon can be seen in the top left quad of the photo – the photos gods were gracious to me this day.
Those were the Days my friend…
…I thought they’d never end.
And they haven’t!
Just when I think my patience is well self-managed and my eye for photography is on the right track, a link or email gets sent that reaches out and smacks me in the nose saying ‘you have a long way to go buck-a-roo’. So much is the case with Michael Paul Smith, an artist in his own right with a knack for drawing gasps, making heads shake, and causing rapid eye blinking in amazement (maybe a little bit of disbelief as well). Continue reading “Those were the Days my friend…”
Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn
The title is a quote I’ve long since forgotten its origin, but for any of us needing some tranquility in our lives, perhaps a few repeat chants of the quote and witness to a spectacular sunrise might make for a better start to your day. Stop and smell the roses; Stop and take in a sunrise, or a sunset; Stop and hug a tree (and a loved one) sometime soon. Continue reading “Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn”
365-2009
Happy Belated New Year y’all!
So much – sometimes too much – going on, but then so much went on last year…that was documented.
One thing for 2009 for sure: I’m done! That is last year’s New Year’s resolution to take one picture a day is done. What fun I had and thoroughly enjoyed the challenge. It brought me more familiar with photography, a decent and knowledgeable understanding of digital cameras (I now have 6 within arm’s reach at any time day or night), a better eye for detail, color, repeating forms, and a favorite…people. Continue reading “365-2009”
Return from a Paradise
So the Blog has suffered some neglect of late. I’ve missed two weekends of college football – ughhhhhhh; one week’s worth of sarcasm opportunities have escaped these pages; Mackie Queen of Scots still lays across my lap in an effort to not let me go anywhere again without her.
But it was worth enduring all those daily-grind withdrawals. My co-workers, my heart, soul and sanity, and most importantly my family needed me to go away for a while on a trip to Canada…with Dad and OFB Terry.
I’m so glad we did just that.
This vacation was bought and planned for nearly a year by the sons (brothers). It was a combination Christmas, Birthday, and Thanks-for-being-our-Dad gift for a 75th birthday and milestone celebration of 50+ years of fatherhood. So we went fishing, damn it! Continue reading “Return from a Paradise”
This Year’s Fireworks
Each year for the past 8 years or so the Lake Dallas Parks and Special Events departments puts on a 4th of July fireworks show. For a small community, it’s an admirable display that brings out a number of Lake Cities folks. For 30 minutes, everyone seems to sit back and enjoy the show, and each other…with little regard for miserable humidity and mosquitoes. The beer-influenced social skills of the patrons oddly turn polite (for the most part) once the show starts, but before and after…well that storytelling would require a koozie holder for another lawn chair in the Bubba truck.
What Say Me
Needless to say, I’ve taken several days and stayed away from the ol’ Blog scene (and Facebook too). But I just can’t stay gone for long. So busy was I over the past several weeks, both professionally and personally, I actually slept when I would typically write a thing or two. But now I’ve caught up on some sleep (and work)…let me tell you all about it:
Picture-a-day (aka 365) has continued to “shutter”. Check out my Flickr site – the 2009-365 gallery kind of tells a story of the day-to-day experiences. It gets updated weekly (ususually on the weekend)….
Spent a weekend at Dad’s, along with brothers and family – I wrote about that on 5/22 but it is worthy of a repeat (in my biased opinion): Got in a partial round at least. That was fun but Dad was much too much on the puny side of health, but he’s good now (so he says). The real golf game is next Friday. Pride and beers are on the line….
Touring about town
Denton is always full of surprises. I love this town. It’s like this town is themeing photographs for me. WUWT?
Over the past few days it’s been antique automobiles. And it is a handful of automobiles that made me stop on three occassions to photograph. Only one of the stops (the Model T) afforded me the opportunity to actually talk with the automobile owner…and he was as much a character as his car. Continue reading “Touring about town”
The other side of the camera
One issue I’ve realized over the past several months is a lack of pictures. It’s not so much that I don’t have pictures – I actually have 4,565 of them so far this year since I’ve started this 365 / Picture-a-day thing. I just don’t have a decent one of myself for posting to the blog. Mind you, I have 293 pictures of OFGNi Madison; 353 pics of OFGNe Mick; and I have 26 of me. That ratio really doesn’t bother me whatsoever.
So if I want a picture in the sidebar of this blog, I’m kind of forced to choose a goofy one from my library (the one uploaded now is looking like I have gas and I’m self-humored because of it). Please know, I extend my sincere apologies for the creepiness pose in the left column even though I look like I feel better…the gas thing and all ya know. Continue reading “The other side of the camera”
Come visit more often
Over the weekend, OFSIL Paula came for a visit. It was good to see her. During her brief stay, OFNi Christina and OFGNe Mick came by to visit. Mind you, it’s not me they come to see but truth be known we each enjoy the camera from one side of it or the other.
Welcome to a glimspe of the many faces and expressions of cool kid Mick…. Continue reading “Come visit more often”
Professional oneupmanship
Here are a few “catch phrases of the day” from the day of conventioning with my peers. Why do we do this? Whenever we all get together in one place for more than a day, this always happens. We sometimes like to impress upon each other just how much we like to let people know…that we think we know what we’re talking about. Make your own definitions or ask me to explain further (if I remember…but then I can BS my way through my own definition letting you know how much I think you think I know…huh?): Continue reading “Professional oneupmanship”
Professional exercise –
OK faithfuls, a few minutes taken to finally check the health of the blog and I find myself doing so in an overpriced hotel room in Austin. Sorry for the pregnant pause in postings. Maybe I’m still trying to digest FB Tony and OFNi Dani’s comments on why it’s OK to knock down a piece of history….
In town/out of town for a few days attending our professional society’s (Texas ASLA) state conference. It is also an opportunity to meet up with a few old friends, listen to others express a professional opinion or two in front of their peers, and also catch one’s breath away from the office politics, phones, and interruptions. Meetings like this are always “never a dull moment”. Continue reading “Professional exercise –”
The people you see…
…when you don’t have your camera. Dag-gum-it!
I am usually one to carry one of my two cameras around no matter where I go. Others are amazed the places I take my cameras, and even more surprised of what pictures I take at these strange places. This 365 picture thing I’m doing has created a monster…and another appendage.
We did lunch at The Loophole yesterday. Sitting there eating my glorious Felony Nachos, enjoying meal-time conversation with Rachelle and Nick, when who walks in the door? Continue reading “The people you see…”
One of those days
Ever had one of those days, with camera in hand you come upon so many odd photo opps? That was how part of my morning was spent in Little Elm – so much to photograph. All taken within minutes of each other. BYW, the Buffalo and the shored-up building were pictures taken in the soon-to-be wealthy town of Prosper (a few miles up the road from Little Elm)
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